75 OVER THE HILL?

Looking Back...What goes around comes around.When the modern American supermarket was in its infancy 75 years ago, the more established chain operators -- who hand-picked orders for customers and often delivered them as well -- dismissed the format as a passing fancy."Chain store executives, [who] had devoted many years to reducing their pattern of cash-and-carry almost to a science, could not understand

Looking Back...

What goes around comes around.

When the modern American supermarket was in its infancy 75 years ago, the more established chain operators -- who hand-picked orders for customers and often delivered them as well -- dismissed the format as a passing fancy.

"Chain store executives, [who] had devoted many years to reducing their pattern of cash-and-carry almost to a science, could not understand how the super[market] -- particularly